Application for Travel Document
Re-entry permit, refugee travel document, or advance parole.
When this applies to you
- You're a permanent resident planning extended travel abroad
- You're a refugee or asylee who needs to travel internationally
- You have a pending I-485 and need advance parole
- You need to travel for emergency or humanitarian reasons
Documents you'll need
You upload these while filling out the form. You can start now and add them as you go.
- An official photo identity document
Clearly showing your photo, name and date of birth: current EAD, driver's license, passport identity page, Green Card… Form I-94 is not accepted as a photo ID.
- Two passport-style photographsOptional
To go in the envelope, not uploaded: two identical recent color photos, 2x2 inches, full face, white to off-white background, thin glossy paper, unmounted and unretouched. Head 1 to 1 3/8 inches from top of hair to chin, eyes 1 1/8 to 1 3/8 inches from the bottom of the photo, head bare unless worn for religious reasons. Lightly print your name and A-Number (if any) on the back in pencil or felt pen.
- Two passport-style photographs (filing from abroad)Optional
To go in the envelope, not uploaded: two identical recent color photos, 2x2 inches, full face, white to off-white background, thin glossy paper, unmounted and unretouched. Head 1 to 1 3/8 inches from top of hair to chin, eyes 1 1/8 to 1 3/8 inches from the bottom of the photo, head bare unless worn for religious reasons. Lightly print your name and A-Number (if any) on the back in pencil or felt pen.
- Your Green Card, front and back
If you have not received it yet: your passport biographic pages and the visa page showing your admission as a permanent resident, or the I-797 approving the replacement of your card, or temporary evidence of permanent resident status (I-551 stamp).
- Proof of your refugee or asylee status
The USCIS document showing your refugee or asylee status (I-94, approval letter or notice), or an immigration judge's order granting you asylum.
- Any other supporting information (optional)Optional
- Your statement explaining why you are filing from abroad
Why you left without filing for a travel document; whether you intended to abandon your status; where you traveled and why; your activities abroad; and evidence of when you last departed (less than one year ago).
- Evidence that your TPS was approved
The approval notice (I-797) for your initial Form I-821 or your latest re-registration.
- A USCIS document showing your current status (if any)Optional
For example a Form I-797 Notice of Action.
- Your Form I-485 receipt notice
The Form I-797C you received after filing your I-485.
- An explanation or evidence of why you need to travel
With the dates and expected length of the trip. For example a doctor's letter about treatment or an ailing relative, a death certificate, a letter from an employer or conference host, a school letter or enrollment in a study-abroad program.
- Your U.S. consular appointment letter (if traveling to Canada for an immigrant visa)Optional
- Evidence that USCIS received your Form I-821 (TPS)
The Form I-797C receipt notice.
- The Form I-797 granting your DACA
- Proof of your CNMI long-term resident status
Your EAD (Form I-766) front and back showing that status, or the I-797 approving it if you do not have the card yet.
- Your travel statement: purpose, specific dates and destinations
- Proof of eligibility under the basis you selected
As described in the DHS or USCIS guidance for that basis.
- Your last Reentry Permit or Refugee Travel Document (optional)Optional
If you still have it and it is still valid: USCIS will not issue a new one until the old one is returned.
- Your last Advance Parole Document (optional)Optional
- Documents supporting the correction you request
For example the birth certificate, passport or name-change order showing the correct information.
- The document being replaced, if damaged or incorrectOptional
The original, in the envelope. Not needed if it was lost, stolen or never received.
How the filing works
- 9 guided sections in your language. We only ask the questions that apply to you.
- Your answers are saved as you go, so you can stop and come back
- We fill the official USCIS PDF and you sign it online